[Year 12 IT Apps] MMOS data collection and validation

[Laurie Savage]

My favourite weird question was "On a scale of 1 to 5, what is your
favorite number?" I'm guessing he will be able to use these data to create
a hypothesis like "Mobile phones cause brain tumours" (an earlier sketch of
his).

Laurie

Laurie Savage
https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home

On 3 September 2015 at 12:54, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:

> ​Hi, data miners
>
> Next year, the Informatics kids will be expected to gather authentic data
> for their MMOS (multimodal online solution).
>
> Today's XKCD includes a Google survey to find 'weird correlations'.
>
> One question asks how good a speller you are on a scale from 1 to 5.
>
> Quite cunningly, another question asks you which of these words you know -
> and there's a list of about 20 obscure words... some of which I strongly
> suspect do not exist.
>
> Fakers or liars will probably indicate they 'know' some words that are
> known to not exist, thereby giving a self-diagnosis of the honesty of their
> answers.
>
> I thought it was quite a clever method of validating survey data.
>
> ​Try it yourself - it's fun.
>
> ​
> ​​
> http://xkcd.com/1572/
>
>
> --
>
> Mark Kelly
>
>
>
> mark at vceit.com
> http://vceit.com
>
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